It turns out that was a trailer for a longer version - fans of that broadcast, which promoted Samsung's QuickDrive washing machine, now have a 66-minute version to look forward to.

'Washing Machine - The Movie' will premiere in Leicester Square on 5 December and is set to an original score by BAFTA-nominated composer Michael Nyman. It will be available on YouTube from 6 December.

The film features nothing but a washing machine going round, and was inspired by research from Samsung that found the average Brit will spend 1,481 hours across their lifetime watching the washing go round.

Nyman said: "The idea of this intrigued me when I was approached, putting a score to something so visually repetitive and prosaic. As a film composer you are frequently taking a cue from the drama on screen or interpreting it sonically, but here the challenge was to offset the mundanity and also enhance the hypnotic appeal."